People who are passionate to serve God need to be welcomed, equipped, supported and released. If we as local churches and Christian agencies get this right, we will see many fresh expressions of God’s kingdom.

This book offers practical advice to those who are keen to serve God, and to those churches and Christian agencies that want to equip and support them. It is based on biblical narrative and draws on personal experience. It could be the very training manual you’ve been hoping for.

Hugh Osgood reminds us that sending is not a single event but a culture – a way of being the church. The result is a vision of church life that is relational rather than programmatic, attentive to the Spirit rather than controlling, and courageous enough to trust God and release people into their calling.

From the foreword by Revd Canon John McGinley, Executive Director of Myriad